Senjahopen or Senjehopen is a village in
Senja Municipality
Senja is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020 when the municipalities of Berg, Lenvik, Torsken, and Tranøy were merged into one municipality. It is located in the traditional district of ...
in
Troms og Finnmark
Troms og Finnmark (; sme, Romsa ja Finnmárku ; fkv, Tromssa ja Finmarkku; fi, Tromssa ja Finnmark, lit. Troms and Finnmark in English), is a county in northern Norway that was established on 1 January 2020 as the result of a regional reform ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. Senjahopen is located along the
Mefjorden
Mefjorden or Mefjord is a small fjord in Sandefjord Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The long fjord lies in-between two long, narrow peninsulas: Vesterøya and Østerøya. It is a narrow fjord with many minor islands and islets.
T ...
on the northwest part of the large
island of Senja, where it is one of the most important fishing villages on the island. Another nearby fishing village is
Mefjordvær, which located about to the northwest.
Although Senjahopen is about north of the municipal center of
Skaland
Skaland is a village in Senja Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the shores of the Bergsfjorden on the northwest side of the island of Senja, about to the southwest of the village of Senjahopen and abo ...
, the trip took well over an hour to drive, until 2004 when the ''Geitskartunnelen'' opened. The new road under the mountains cut about off of the trip between the two villages.
The village has a population (2017) of 305 which gives the village a
population density
Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...
of .
References
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Villages in Troms
Populated places of Arctic Norway
Senja